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- This invention pertains primarily to outdoor point of sale of displayed items and for protecting such items from environmental hazards.
- a stack of items for outdoor sale is protected by an enclosure comprising front, back and side walls interconnected along their side edges and having a top cover joined along its edges to the top edges of the front, back and side walls to form a box-like structure adapted to overlie and surround the stack of items so as to afford protection of such items against undesirable environmental conditions including dust, dirt, moisture, sunlight, temperature variations and the like, at least one of the walls of the enclosure being constructed to afford full view and ready access to such items.
- advantage is taken of convection principles for maintaining internal temperature conditions within the enclosure at acceptable levels.
- air circulation may be provided by forced feed means such as electrically powered fans and if desired the atmosphere within the enclosure could take the form of heat dissipating gases such as carbon dioxide and the like which are injected into the enclosure.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective overall view of an enclosure formed according to this invention as seen from the front and from one side;
- FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1 and shows the structure as viewed from its rear wall and from another side;
- FIG. 3 is a fragmentary enlarged perspective view of a corner of the structure such as is shown in FIG. 2 with a vent aperture disposed in front of a motor driven electric fan for circulating air within the enclosure;
- FIG. 4 is a perspective exploded view showing the cover and rear wall in collapsed condition together with one side wall;
- FIG. 5 is a view of the side and rear walls and of the cover in assembled condition and with a moveable portion of the front wall disposed in exploded condition;
- FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 5 but which shows the movable portion of the front wall in assembled condition and a lower transverse closure panel exploded from its normal position at the bottom of the front wall;
- FIG. 7 is a fragmentary enlarged view of a portion of the cover together with portions of movable transparent strips forming a portion of the front wall;
- FIG. 8 is an enlarged fragmentary cross sectional view taken along the line designated 8--8 in FIG. 5;
- FIG. 9 is a fragmentary front view of one corner of the enclosure and showing a portion of a pallet stack of items displayed within the enclosure;
- FIG. 10 is a cross sectional view taken along the line designated 10--10 in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 11 is an enlarged fragmentary exploded view showing the manner in which the cover is secured by suitable bolt or pin means to a side wall;
- FIG. 12 is a graphic representation of variations in ambient temperature over a continuous period of time and which shows the variations in temperature of two cans located in identical positions in pallet stacks of displayed items such as soft drinks, the curve for can 1 showing the moderating effect of the enclosing structure formed according to this invention as against the wider variation in temperature of can 2 achieved by a pallet stack disposed outside an enclosing structure; and
- FIG. 13 is a graph similar to FIG. 12 which like FIG. 12 shows ambient temperature variation over a ninety five hour period plotted against average temperatures of several displayed items located at different but corresponding parts of two pallet stacks, one pallet of items being disposed in an enclosure according to the invention and the other of which was not enclosed in a protective enclosing structure.
- the numeral 1 designates the cover of the enclosure while the numeral 2 designates a side wall and the numeral 3 designates the back wall.
- Another side wall is designated by the numeral 4.
- the front wall of the enclosure includes a lower transverse closure panel 5 and an upper horizontal cross piece 6 from which manually movable transparent closure means is suspended as shown in FIGS. 1 and 9.
- the manually movable transparent closure means comprises a plurality of transparent plastic strips secured at their upper ends by staples 8 to horizontal cross pieces 6 and 6a and arranged with their lower ends disposed inside the transverse closure panel 5.
- the transparent closure strips 7 could be employed within the purview of this invention such for example as a transparent pull down shade.
- the walls and cover should be light in color and in most cases should be white so as to facilitate reflection of light.
- the strips 7 may be formed of vinyl material and aid in protection against ultraviolet radiation.
- Vents 9, 10 and 11 are formed in side wall 2 and are provided respectively with movable closure panels 9a, 10a and 11a.
- vents 12, 13 and 14 which are respectively provided with movable closure panels 12a, 13a and 14a.
- vents 11 and 14 are formed near the top of their associated side walls and are located near the front of the enclosure because the cover 1 is slanted downwardly from front to back so that accumulation of heated air tends to develop near the high point of the enclosure in the area adjacent the vents 11 and 14. Exhaust of such heated air is thus facilitated.
- vents 15, 16, and 17 are provided and respectively include vent closure panels 15a, 16a and 17a.
- the total area of vents 9-17 is between 2 percent and 8 percent of the total surface area of the walls and cover excluding the area of the manually movable transparent closure means.
- an electric motor 18 may be provided to drive a fan so that air within the enclosure is forced outwardly through the vent 15.
- Energy for driving the motor 18 may be derived from a battery or from the solar panel 19 which converts radiation from the sun into electricity and which is automatically renewed on a continuous basis. While the motor 18 and associated fan are useful for some applications of the invention, there are many situations which function well without employing a motor and fan or any other air circulating device.
- the back wall 3 is foldably joined along fold line 20 to cover 1.
- Transverse cross piece 6 is foldably joined along fold line 22 to cover 1 and cross piece 6a is secured to the inner surface of transverse cross piece 6 as shown in FIG. 5.
- the flexible transparent strips 7 are secured to horizontal cross pieces 6 and 6a by staples 8.
- FIG. 6 is similar to FIG. 5 but shows the enclosure fully assembled except that the lower closure panel 5 is shown as exploded from its fully assembled position.
- FIG. 8 discloses in cross sectional form the folded front edge 2a of side wall 2.
- the doubled back portion 2b is secured in flat relation with the inner surface of turned back edge portion 2a by means of a strip of double face tape interposed between elements 2a and 2b thus to establish a strong corner post of substantial rigidity.
- the front portion 4a of side wall 4 is folded into normal relation with respect to side wall 4 and is reinforced in the manner indicated above in connection with side wall 2.
- the cover 1 is secured to the top edge of side wall 2 by a plurality of pins Pl which are inserted into apertures A1 formed in a side edge of cover 1 and into apertures A2 formed in the folded top edge of 2c of side wall 2.
- cover 1 is secured to the top edge of side wall 4 along an edge by pins P2 which are inserted through apertures A3 and into corresponding apertures formed in the folded top edge of side wall 4.
- pins P4 are inserted into apertures A5 formed in turned down panel 25 foldably joined to one end of horizontal cross piece 6 and into apertures A7 formed in side wall 4.
- Cross piece 26 is similarly secured to an upper corner of side wall 2 by pins inserted into apertures A6.
- the flexible transparent strips 7 are disposed in overlapping relation with each other so as to form an effective manually movable transparent means in the front wall. If desired, similar means could be formed in one or more other walls if need be. Also the strips 7 may be arranged with their edges simply in parallel closely spaced relation not necessarily overlapped.
- transverse closure panel 5 is secured to the bottom portion of side walls 2 and 4 by suitable pins inserted apertures A8 and A9 as is obvious from FIG. 6.
- Back panel 3 is secured to folded panel 2b by pins P3 and to turned back panel 4b by pins P5 as shown in FIG. 2.
- the lower portion 3a is folded back on the lower edge of back wall 3 as is a particularly in FIGS. 4, 5 and 6.
- FIG. 11 simply shows cover 1 and side wall 2 with pin P1 and F for securing cover 1 to side wall 2. Obviously securing means may be used if desired.
- FIG. 9 shows the strips 7 broken away and behind which are disposed a pallet stack of consumer items such as soft drinks identified at C. While the displayed items may or may not be mounted on a pallet, it is vital that items within the enclosure be arranged and the vents located so as not to interfere with circulation.
- the clearance between the inside walls of the enclosure and the outside surface of the pallet stack should range between one-half inch and four inches and preferably should be approximately one and one-half inches.
- this passage is designated at VP.
- groups of packaged items such as cans may be arranged in wrappers such as are designated W1-W8. These particular wrappers are arranged so that they have a greater length than width. For example, each may comprise three rows of four cans each. Thus the arrangement indicated in FIG. 10 is feasible and desirable.
- the enclosure formed according to this invention is a light weight structure, it is feasible to stack the product to be displayed in the open and then to lower the assembled enclosure which has no bottom wall over the product stack. This procedure is simpler and less time consuming and facilitates stack rotation as distinguished from stacking the product inside an enclosure.
- the enclosure formed according to this invention is intended to protect against dust, dirt and other undesirable environmental factors
- one of its principal purposes is to prevent excessive temperatures in an outdoor display for consumable items such for example as soft drinks.
- the ambient temperature is represented by a curve for an elapsed period of time of 95 hours.
- two other curves are shown, one representing a can number 1 and the other representing can number 2.
- Identical pallet stacks of cans of soft drinks were formed and can number 1 was placed at a certain position in its associated stack within an enclosure formed according to this invention.
- Can number 2 was placed in an identical position to that of can number 1 in its associated pallet stack which was not protected by an enclosure such as that formed according to this invention. From FIG.
- FIG. 13 is in general similar to FIG. 12.
- ambient temperature is plotted over an elapsed period of ninety-five hours as in the case of FIG. 12.
- one curve in FIG. 13 identified as "ENCLOSED PALLET” represents an average temperature of some six cans located at different positions in a pallet stack whereas the "EXPOSED PALLET” curve represents the average temperature of six cans disposed in a pallet identical to that of the enclosed pallet but without utilizing the enclosure formed according to this invention.
- Analysis has shown that consistent results similar to those represented by FIG. 13 show a temperature of approximately 10 degrees Fahrenheit lower for enclosed pallets protected according to this invention as distinguished from those in pallets which are not protected. This difference in temperature has proved to maintain diet soft drinks which include aspertane in a condition which is not bitter and which is acceptable from the standpoint of taste.
- cooling means In addition to cooling the displayed items by the flow of atmospheric air, it may be desirable to inject special cooling means. For example, infusion of carbon dioxide in gaseous form, cool water vapor or other temperature lowering media may be employed to augment cooling action.
- An enclosure formed according to this invention is a durable, light weight inexpensive, device which is easy to install and which protects displayed items against dust, sand dirt and moisture and which extends shelf life of displayed items by virtue of its capacity to moderate temperatures and which avoids the development of bitter taste in products which incorporate aspertane or other temperature sensitive components.
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